Improvement in cartridges



A. HALL.

CARTRIDGES.

No.1'78,055. Patented May 30.1876.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ALBERT HALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,055, dated May 30,1876; application filed May 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT HALL, of the city,county, and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedCartridge, of which the following is a Specification:

Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of my improvedcartridge-shell. Fig. 2 is a top view of. the same; and Fig. 3, a topview of the diametrical anvil and socket-tube.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of papercartridgeshells, by which the same are'considerably stifi'ened, and theanvil rigidly and strongly secured in position in the shell.

The invention consists of a diametrical anvil, made in one piece with anencircling socket-tube, retained securely by the paper shell and themetallic eappieoe.

In the drawing, A rep-resents a diametrical anvil, that is bent in onepiece with an encir- Y.

cling tube, 13, which fits tightly into the paper shell 0. Theencircling or extension tube B of the anvil acts as a socket to thesame,

and serves to strengthen the paper shell, while securing the rigidposition of the anvil." The anvil socket-tube B is made with aslightlybent circumferential lip or flange, a, which bears on the edgeof the paper shell, and prevents, by a cap, 'D, the displacement of theanvil in longitudinal direction. A cap, D, of the usual shape, is spuntightly over the flange of the anvil-tube B, and over the paper shell G,and'secured further to-the shell by small beads or indentations in thecap. The centrally-recessed and inwardly-bent part of the cap, thatreceives the small percussion-cap, fits over the center part of theanvil, and forms an additional support to the same, by which the morecomplete stili'eniug and interlocking of the parts, and, thereby, ashell of increased strength and resistance, is produced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. As an improvement in. cartridge-shells, thediainetrical anvil of the shell, being ,encircled by a socket-tube, bentin one piece with the anvil, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a paper shell and cap with a diametrical anvil andencircling socket-tube of one piece, secured by a circumferential endlip or flange, substantially as specified.

ALBERT HALL.

Witnesses: 1

PAUL GoEPEL, JAMES H. HUNTER.

